The role of a boyfriend cannot interfere in the friendship between girls. What follows is a happy time for the girls.

Cheng Zhirang dropped them off at Mu Qiu’s small villa in the suburbs and didn’t disturb them much; after saying a few words to Mu Qiu, he left.

Leaving Mu Qiu and Zhao Yu standing at the door, watching the car disappear into the distance.

When it was so far away that they couldn’t even see the tail of the car, Zhao Yu took a deep breath and suddenly let out a loud, bizarre scream.

"Allow me to exclaim belatedly—Dad!"

Mu Qiu: "....." Are you insane?

Zhao Yu, who had been pretending all day, just couldn’t hold back anymore and began shaking Mu Qiu.

"Oh my God! Handsome face, tall, gentle, and there’s even a small attic here. You’ve really turned the tables big time, haven’t you?!"

Mu Qiu raised her hand to hold down her head: "My brain is going to get rattled out by you, stop stop stop!"

After stopping her crazy antics, Mu Qiu pulled her inside the door.

"Seeing how calm you were yesterday, I thought apart from seeing Su Yan’s face, you were automatically blind to other men."

"They’re different," Zhao Yu said, looking around the decor on the first floor, sitting on the sofa, and added, "But I thought you two had just started dating not too long ago, so your relationship shouldn’t be this close. What method did you use to tame Cheng Beauty?"

During dinner yesterday, it was all silently picking up food, indulgent smiles, and every third sentence was about "her", sweet and sour—sweet for the two of them, sour for the onlookers.

"Cheng Beauty?" Mu Qiu focused on something else, "He was so masculine yesterday, where did you see the beauty in him?"

"His face."

Well, that can’t be refuted.

After figuring out where that nickname came from, she answered the earlier question: "What taming? It’s all natural, after all, we’re still in the honeymoon phase, right?"

"What is a honeymoon phase like? Where in the same frame, you look at each other like you’re weaving strings?"

"...." Mu Qiu coughed, "It’s not that exaggerated, okay? It’s normal eye contact, alright? The honeymoon phase is just being happy to see the person, no need for any eye-weaving nonsense."

Zhao Yu pondered: "Then I think I might like my company boss."

"?!"

"Ever since I started buying stocks with him, I’m happy whenever I see him, can’t help but smile like a flower."

"... Maybe you should lie down for a bit, I think you might not be very clear-headed right now."

She went upstairs to the bedroom, took down the custom-made red vintage Kilinor Dress—the same as the one she wore on the show—and quietly brought it downstairs, hiding it behind her back.

Today is Zhao Yu’s birthday.

They had decided to go to Disney. Wearing such a grand dress to experience being a princess should be wonderful.

As she was coming downstairs, Zhao Yu leaned against the sofa back, staring at the ceiling, lost in thought.

She tiptoed downstairs like a thief, peeking around.

Until half her leg was exposed, the contemplative Zhao Yu turned her head to look at her.

"Come on, I know you’re going to surprise me, I’ll do my best to act like I know nothing."

"..." How boring, she pouted, no longer sneaky, and walked down with a thud-thud-thud, holding up one of the dresses in front of her, "See, doesn’t it look just like the clothes you used to make for your Barbie dolls?"

"... How many years ago was that?!" She can’t even remember, plus back then making clothes for Barbie was just wrapping a piece of cloth, nothing like this.

Despite her verbal complaints, she still honestly took the dress.

She held it up, looking it over from head to toe, her eyes couldn’t conceal her liking for it.

"It’s indeed beautiful, seeing you in it in the last episode was already pretty. Especially the chest area, makes your waist look slim, it’s perfect."

Mu Qiu quietly tightened her collar.

"There’s no possibility between us, even though I love you too, my preferences are temporarily for men."

Zhao Yu rolled her eyes at her, stood up and held the dress against her, asking, "Where’s the bathroom? I want to try it on."

"I’ll go with you."

Kilinor Dresses are still a bit thick, fortunately, the modified ones have a removable cotton lining, which made it much better.

Once dressed, the two stood side by side in front of the mirror, nodding in satisfaction at their reflections.

"Very nice, wearing this, I feel like I can eat ten ice creams and five small cakes at Disney, and surely not gain weight."

Mu Qiu tucked her hair behind her ear, spinning around, saying, "Nice wish. But I hope you look at your belly, you eat one cake, your tummy will bulge."

After all, this dress hugs the waist tightly.

Zhao Yu instinctively took a deep breath to pull in her stomach.

"Maybe not, I don’t want to be a pregnant Empress in the princess castle."

The clothes were ready and needed to be changed back at Disney later. They switched into cooler dresses and prepared for makeup and hair.

They decided to do a particularly glamorous makeup, curl their hair into waves, and wear high heels.

Mu Qiu brought down a pile of makeup products.

In the previous episodes, they did wear makeup but it was never heavy, now doing a heavy makeup for going out, it was a bit exciting.

In the bathroom, the two chatted gaily without stopping, Zhao Yu focused on drawing eyeliner for Mu Qiu, while Mu Qiu insisted on doing Zhao Yu’s eyeshadow.

The legendary eye-enlarging technique: eyeshadow, eyeliner, colored contacts, and false eyelashes.

But Mu Qiu always kept her distance from false lashes, only using mascara.

Sunscreen, primer, foundation, powder, and highlighter from head to neck, not even missing the collarbone.

Then layering a few lipsticks, blotting, and curling her hair into temporary waves, pinning back her bangs with a simple silver hairpin.

Zhao Yu pinched Mu Qiu’s chin, turning her head.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this eyeliner, the finishing touch. Look at this seductive appearance, come on, press your lips together."

Mu Qiu obediently pressed her lips, the layered lipstick on her lips smudged again, spreading the deeper color in the middle.

Zhao Yu: "If I were a man, I wouldn’t be able to hold back now."

Mu Qiu threw her a flirty glance.

"Your eyeshadow is not bad too, it looks like the wicked Empress style."

"... I knew you had clumsy hands, clean it off, I want a fresh and elegant princess look, okay?"

"Okay, dear."

Fussing around for over an hour, it was already past five in the afternoon, and the two cheerfully left with their bags.

Cheng Zhirang had left a car in the backyard, driven by Zhao Yu straight to Disney.

...

Cheng Zhirang didn’t return to the Half Mountain Villa, nor to Yishan, but went to the studio.

He’s got a dinner meeting with a director and investors tonight, he and Chen Song need to go.

This year’s movie hasn’t been decided yet, neither he nor Chen Song is in a rush. For one, he’s not in a hurry to take on a movie, and for another, Chen Song thinks he can gain enough popularity from this variety show, so no need to rush for a big screen appearance, mainly waiting for a quality script and crew.